What is this "Visual Micro" nonsense?

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Posted by Torby: Thu. Jun 26, 2014 - 02:33 PM
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I'm trying to use Atmel Studio like I always do, but it keeps popping up boxes asking me to try or buy Visual Micro.

And over and over again, it tells me there's an update to ASF.

I just want to USE the *&^$ thing! Has studio become malware?

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Posted by Brutte: Thu. Jun 26, 2014 - 02:49 PM
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[url=https://www.avrfreaks.net/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=144010... Visual Micro[/url]
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Posted by js: Thu. Jun 26, 2014 - 09:08 PM
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Has studio become malware?
No, it has always been since AS5.... :?

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Posted by Torby: Fri. Jun 27, 2014 - 02:28 AM
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Posted by westfw: Fri. Jun 27, 2014 - 02:50 AM
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The visual Micro "buy me" pop-ups are really annoying; such a thing shouldn't be permitted in an Atmel-distributed plugin, IMO.

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Posted by js: Fri. Jun 27, 2014 - 08:02 AM
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I don't have any problems, still using AS4.18! :wink:

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Posted by clawson: Fri. Jun 27, 2014 - 09:16 AM
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Are you seeing this as a result of some extension that has been installed I wonder?

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Posted by meolsen: Fri. Jun 27, 2014 - 10:29 AM
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Are you seeing this as a result of some extension that has been installed I wonder?

It's not bundled by us at least...

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Posted by Torby: Fri. Jun 27, 2014 - 11:41 AM
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Ok. It came with the Arduino IDE for Atmel Studio 6.1 & 6.2 extension, which I mistakenly clicked when studio was pestering me to update the ASF that I don't use yet again.

I used the control panel in windows to uninstall anything that said "Visual Micro" and the popup asking me to configure it has gone away.

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Posted by visual_micro: Wed. Aug 20, 2014 - 01:47 PM
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Torby wrote:
I'm trying to use Atmel Studio like I always do, but it keeps popping up boxes asking me to try or buy Visual Micro.

And over and over again, it tells me there's an update to ASF.

I just want to USE the *&^$ thing! Has studio become malware?

Hi Torby,

The ASF update prompt is nothing to do with the Visual Micro software it is a part of Atmel Studio. If you run the update it will not prompt until the next update.

The prompt that appears once every few weeks to upgrade to the debug version of Visual Micro can be disabled in the options.

The "Stop trying to sell me stuff" switch is documented here with the rest of the product documentation. http://www.visualmicro.com/page/...

It takes a lot of time and effort to create the software which is used actively by many. So the upgrade simply attempts to recover some of the costs however the Arduino functionality is free.

All in all I can find no substance in anything you have said and your words do nothing other than cast a false shadow.

RTFM

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Posted by visual_micro: Wed. Aug 20, 2014 - 02:02 PM
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Hi westfw,

You can see the answer in my previous message and also the reasons for trying to gain some income from the tool.

Visual Micro is an extensive tool for Arduino development and I politely request that rather than moan you either read the documentation or join the free forum and ask your question.

If you don't like the answer then you can moan, anything else is entirely unfair.

Tim

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Posted by clawson: Wed. Aug 20, 2014 - 02:49 PM
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Can't you put a tick box in the trying to sell me stuff dialog that simply says "not interested, don't show this again"? then everyone would be happy.

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Posted by js: Wed. Aug 20, 2014 - 09:12 PM
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This would have been another reason to use a hammer and smash my computer...just as well I'm staying well away from the bloat in AS6! Not good for the blood pressure.

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Posted by clawson: Wed. Aug 20, 2014 - 09:17 PM
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Admittedly you only get these nags IFF you choose to download this add-on. If you read the blurb I'm sure it must tell you somewhere that what you are downloading is a trial of a commercial product.

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Posted by Torby: Wed. Aug 20, 2014 - 11:09 PM
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You'll notice that I solved the problem 2 months ago.

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Posted by westfw: Thu. Aug 21, 2014 - 12:01 AM
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I don't mind if I download Visual Micro from Visual Micro and it does nag-ware at me each time I run it. But something offered as an "Atmel Stdio Extension" should be more up-front that it will do so, more subtle in its nagging (perhaps each time I start an Arduino project, rather than each time I start AS?), and easier to turn off. (I mean, I really shouldn't have to read the VS documentation if I'm not using it, right?) (Hmm. Does it actually run only "every week" or so? It has seemed to pop up every time I start AS. But I don't actually USE AS very often... "Every few weeks" might be an acceptable compromise.)

Although, my initial impression was that VM (the people) had received some compensation from Atmel in exchange for implementing VM (the product) as a AS extension...

In any case, thanks for the disable instructions.

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Posted by visual_micro: Sun. Aug 30, 2015 - 08:48 PM
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The nag wasn't a nag it was the configuration window that requests a location of an Arduino Ide. If no location was configured then a bug prompted the "request for config" each time Visual Micro started. Sorry about that!

 

The latest releases only request configuration one time otherwise you have to enter the path manually at a later time.

 

The prompt to buy the Pro version appears every 4 weeks for unregistered users.

 

Thanks

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